Cohousing-L Mailing List: common costs

[don i arkin (shardon5]

Hi,  At Sonora Cohousing we also used a mixed approach to divvying up the
CH costs and the dues.  Our formulation was based on a loose
determination of what "uses" were affected by the number of users and
which ones were not.  This determination was based on the somewhat
dubious assumption that larger units held more residents as well as the
very debateable decisions that, for example, since the dining
room/kitchen had to be made bigger because more people would be using
them, units with more people should pay more.  Since everyone involved
realized how fuzzy the entire exercise was, the discussion and decision
was very relaxed and one of our best consensus exercises in my memory.
        In any case since all the homeowners own a share of the CH which
passes along with the title to their house, the costs of construction of
it naturally become part of the cost of the house.
        Don Arkin
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